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Feed Alternatives When Drought Puts a Halt to Forage Production

This week's report on forage and drought conditions in North Dakota provides some good information for everyone suffering from drought conditions, and that includes...

Principles for Grass Fed Success

 Forrest Pritchard is a farmer with actual experience raising grass fed beef, and is also a very talented New York Times Best Selling author....

Study Shows Grasslands Are More Reliable Carbon Sinks Than Forests

Thanks to Kat Kerlin and the University of California, Davis for this article. Note that the study provides recommendations about carbon markets specific to...

Managing Risk and Social Pressure

This 3 minute video is part of the NRCS-sponsored series Soil Health How-To. In this series, Dr. Buz Kloot, visits farms, orchard and vineyards...

A Focus on Soil Health Helps Farmer/Grazier Through Weather Extremes

Forecasters are predicting that extreme weather events are going to become more and more common in the future. This article from Lynn Betts and...

Management By Principle

For the past 8 years I've published 5 to 6 "How-To" articles a week. Because readers live everywhere across the United States, and the...

Is Compost Tea Good for Soil Health?

This article is a condensed version of a series of a two article series from January of 2016. (Here is Part 1 and Part...

Match.com for Grazing? These Exchanges Match Graziers and Folks Who Need Them

There are lots of reasons for adding livestock to landscapes. Grazing crop residue and cover crops is a low-cost way to recycle nutrients back...

Farmer Manages Variety and Builds Resilience Through Soil Health

Thanks to the South Dakota Soil Health Coalition for this article! South Dakota is known for its variety, and Don Nickelson’s operation in Frederick...

Conservation and Ranching Go Hand in Hand

Thanks to the Sand County Foundation for this piece. I've added some ideas about how you can use what you learn here. Craig and Conni...

Has Dry Weather Got You Worried? Planting Annual Forages Can Provide Fall Feed

Thanks to co-author Dr. Jerry Volesky, University of Nebraska-Lincoln extension range and forage specialist. Listen to a discussion of the content in this article on...

Take a Deeper Look at Soil Health

Dr. Ray Weil has spent his whole life looking at and learning about soils and how they work to keep us all fed. In...

Harnessing Cow Power to Rejuvenate Forages

Thanks to the Beef Cattle Research Council for this great article! As forage stands age, plant species composition shifts and production declines over time. There...

Do You Know the Difference Between Organic Material and Soil Organic Matter?

This article comes to us from Eddie Funderburg, Ed.D., Senior Soils and Crops Consultant at the Noble Research Institute. Since we talk a lot...

How to Manage Wet Winter Grazing

I walked across some pastures on the last day of November and shook my head as water splashed up from my gum boots and...

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